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this Act the enforcement by an owner of a right to recover
possession of goods from a hirer is subject to any re-
striction, the hirer refuses to give up possession of the
goods to the owner, the hirer shall not, by reason only
of the refusal, be liable to the owner for conversion of
the goods.

NOTES TO SECTION 17

This section has certain retrospective operation, and
applies to hire-purchase agreements within the ambit of the
Act whether made before or after the commencement of the
Act, so far as relates to a " refusal" on and after ist January,
1939 (section 20 (i) (d)). In view of the terms of section n
this section hardly seems necessary.

18. Provision for the exercise by inferior courts
other than county courts of the jurisdiction conferred
by this Act.—(i) His Majesty may by Order in
Council direct that the jurisdiction conferred upon county
courts by this Act may be exercised by any inferior court
specified in the Order, and whilst any such Order is in
force with respect to any inferior court, an action to which
section twelve of this Act applies may, where the hirer
resides or carries on business within the jurisdiction of
that inferior court or resided or carried on business
within the jurisdiction of that court at the date on
which he last made a payment under the hire-purchase
agreement, be commenced either in a county court in
accordance with the provisions of the said section or in
that inferior court.

(2) The Order may contain such provisions as appear
to His Majesty to be expedient with respect to the rules of
court for regulating the procedure to be followed in any
such action, and may also, where it appears to His
Majesty to be necessary, contain provisions authorising
the making of such rules.

(3) Any Order made under this section may be revoked